Pakistanis light up Twitter as country plunges into darkness

After the nationwide blackout on Saturday night, Twitterati stayed vigilant and shared rib-tickling tweets, memes

Restoration efforts carried on well into Sunday morning after almost all cities and towns across Pakistan plunged into darkness late Saturday night following a major technical fault that caused the frequency in the entire distribution system to drop from 50 to 0.

Tweeting from the ministry's official Twitter handle, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Energy said that according to initial reports, the Guddu power plant developed a fault at 11:41 pm on Saturday night.

While the first few minutes after the blackout were rather confusing as to the reason behind the nationwide crackdown, many took to Twitter and shared their theories about the same. We bring you the best memes and tweets we came across.

Behind the scenes at WAPDA for this blackout to happen pic.twitter.com/m7QByBfqbE

— Hassan (@mianhassani) January 9, 2021

As always, the first thought by many was that a war has broken out between the two countries. 

Mein ne flashlight utha li hai https://t.co/lfS5JIChVn

— Shumail (@Shumyl) January 9, 2021

iska apna "ae mard e mujahid jaag zara" chal rha hota hey

— Maliking (@DesiBurger23) January 9, 2021

Dear Pakistanis sleep tight. Zaid Hamid is awake.

— S. 🇵🇰 (@psymeK) January 9, 2021

Many pondered over the possibilities:

soon inshallah pic.twitter.com/jp8tndDrS1

— haider (@ZuHaider) January 9, 2021

Me surviving Ghazwa e Hind only to find out I'm on the wrong side of the borderpic.twitter.com/lWYU7z8pCb

— pakiman (@DaUnitedGuy) January 9, 2021

Me doing my job as Deepika Padukone’s slave post war pic.twitter.com/z9mXQTRu8Z

— 😈 (@lgbtrashidun) January 9, 2021

Me coming across my Indian twitter mutuals on the battlefield pic.twitter.com/GlFl7It5Ei

— ازمر (@khannazmar) January 9, 2021

 

And of course, The Simpsons predicted it as well:

Now checking to see if the Simpsons predicted this too.

— Osman Khalid Butt (@aClockworkObi) January 9, 2021

It’s crazy, the Simpsons predicted this as well! pic.twitter.com/urfqUKg8dM

— Arhum (@arhuml92) January 9, 2021

We have to agree. Twitter really has been there through thick and thin:

Pakistani Twitter in every scary situation pic.twitter.com/cDmuqjPglC

— Adnan (@MrBubbyy) January 9, 2021

You can't beat paki Twitter #blackout pic.twitter.com/7ud9VyZKHQ

— Noo (@kha_nobya) January 9, 2021

me tweeting random shit wanting to score a viral tweet while the whole country is going through a blackout pic.twitter.com/ch9rT7JiJP

— a (@burtmackliinFBI) January 9, 2021

Blackout se ye aj kafi variety wali makhlooq bahir aa gai hai TL pe waah

— S. 🇵🇰 (@psymeK) January 9, 2021

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the quality of memes

— Nathan Allebach (@nathanallebach) January 9, 2021

*qayamat comes*

pakis on twt making memes: pic.twitter.com/Lf1dnMfMB9

— zo (@chefzk) January 9, 2021

Of missed opportunities:

If this is the purge i had always planned to go and rob an import grocery store but my dad locked our gate so this is a missed opportunity

— Sabah Malik (@sabahbanomalik) January 9, 2021

bro this u @undertaker?

— Umar Ahmed (@TheUmarAhmed) January 9, 2021

Ngl, same.

National Anthem. https://t.co/PWW8qEv9qV

— 🌹 (@ranaayyyyy) January 9, 2021

This cracked us up!

Electricity providers tonight pic.twitter.com/M0fm5r9CNa

— Mashriki Mashkro (@commiedi) January 9, 2021

In a nationwide blackout, the person with a charged powerbank is king.

— Fasi Zaka (@fasi_zaka) January 9, 2021

THE FAULT IN OUR TAARS

— Alishba (@Ishbahaha) January 9, 2021

Aurat March's silence on national power outage is telling!

— Bae Faiz (@antifatwa) January 9, 2021

And for people who never got to know what transpired:

people who slept early yesterday waking up with so many memes on blackout#blackout pic.twitter.com/Wwdn1trHvA

— Mahnoor (@MahwithoutNoor) January 10, 2021

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